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The study of crowd dynamics is interesting because of the various self-organization phenomena resulting from the interactions of many pedestrians, which may improve or obstruct their flow. Besides formation of lanes of uniform walking…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-28 Anders Johansson , Dirk Helbing , Habib Z. Al-Abideen , Salim Al-Bosta

This article deals with the experimental study of pedestrian behaviours in some situations of one-dimensional traffic. Participants were pre-organized in a line, and asked to walk either in a straight line with a fast or slow leader, or to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Cécile Appert-Rolland , Anne-Hélène Olivier , Julien Pettré

Security plays a crucial role when it comes to planning large events such as concerts, sporting tournaments, pilgrims, or demonstrations. Monitoring and controlling pedestrian dynamics can prevent dangerous situations from occurring.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-26 Sina Feldmann , Juliane Adrian

Currently, the safety of people has become a very important problem in different places including subway station, universities, colleges, airport, shopping mall and square, city squares. Therefore, considering intelligence event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Constantinou Miti , Demetriou Zatte , Siraj Sajid Gondal

The aim of this paper is to develop a crowd motion model designed to handle highly packed situations. The model we propose rests on two principles: We first define a spontaneous velocity which corresponds to the velocity each individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-01-09 Bertrand Maury , Juliette Venel

Navigation in dense crowds is a well-known open problem in robotics with many challenges in mapping, localization, and planning. Traditional solutions consider dense pedestrians as passive/active moving obstacles that are the cause of all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tingxiang Fan , Dawei Wang , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

The increasing practice of engaging crowds, where organizations use IT to connect with dispersed individuals for explicit resource creation purposes, has precipitated the need to measure the precise processes and benefits of these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-15 J. Prpic , P. , Shukla

This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion. Moreover, this article focusses on the dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-09 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

This paper proposes a crowd dynamic macroscopic model grounded on microscopic phenomenological observations which are upscaled by means of a formal mathematical procedure. The actual applicability of the model to real world problems is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Luca Bruno , Alessandro Corbetta , Andrea Tosin

Advances in large-scale neural recordings have expanded our ability to describe the activity of distributed brain circuits. However, understanding how neural population dynamics differ across regions and behavioral contexts remains…

This article presents an interdisciplinary study of physical and social psychological effects on crowd dynamics based on a series of bottleneck experiments. Bottlenecks are of particular interest for applications such as crowd management…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-14 Juliane Adrian , Armin Seyfried , Anna Sieben

The patterns of motion of mobile agents has received recently wide attention in the literature. There is a number of recent studies centered around the motion behavior of many agents ranging from albatrosses to human beings. Special…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-04-26 R. Mansilla

Traffic jams on roadways, echo chambers on social media, crowds of moving pedestrians, and opinion dynamics during elections are all complex social systems. These applications may seem disparate, but some of the questions that they motivate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-18 Alexandria Volkening

A recent study [D. Helbing, A. Johansson and H. Z. Al-Abideen, {\it Phys. Rev. E} 75, 046109 (2007)] has revealed a "turbulent" state of pedestrian flows, which is characterized by sudden displacements and causes the falling and trampling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Wenjian Yu , Anders Johansson

As we walk towards our destinations, our trajectories are constantly influenced by the presence of obstacles and infrastructural elements: even in absence of crowding our paths are often curved. Over the last two decades pedestrian dynamics…

With the increasing size and frequency of mass events, the study of crowd disasters and the simulation of pedestrian flows have become important research areas. Yet, even successful modeling approaches such as those inspired by Newtonian…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

The escalating process of urbanization has raised concerns about incidents arising from overcrowding, necessitating a deep understanding of large human crowd behavior and the development of effective crowd management strategies. This study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Samson Worku , Pratik Mullick

Crowd gatherings at social and cultural events are increasing in leaps and bounds with the increase in population. Surveillance through computer vision and expert decision making systems can help to understand the crowd phenomena at large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Shreetam Behera , Debi Prosad Dogra , Malay Kumar Bandyopadhyay , Partha Pratim Roy

We present a new algorithm to simulate dynamic group behaviors for interactive multi-agent crowd simulation. Our approach is general and makes no assumption about the environment, shape, or size of the groups. We use the least effort…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Liang He , Jia Pan , Sahil Narang , Wenping Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Crowd management is a complex, challenging and crucial task. Lack of appropriate management of crowd has, in past, led to many unfortunate stampedes with significant loss of life. To increase the crowd management efficiency, we deploy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Garima Ahuja , Kamalakar Karlapalem